Results from around the 28-nation bloc showed pro-European
centre-left and centre-right parties will keep control of around
70 percent of the 751-seat EU legislature, but the number of
Eurosceptic members will more than double.

"People were afraid that Eurosceptic parties would emerge as
big winners. In some countries they are big winners, but the
outcome is not as bad as feared," Koen De Leus, senior economist
at KBC, in Brussels, said. "For example, election results from
Italy suggest that Renzi would be able to continue his reforms."